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Musicals, Plays, and Operas- Oh My!
I craft stories that live at the intersection of myth and reality, where the epic crashes into the deeply personal.
My writing tends to be darkly humorous and unapologetically human—I'm fascinated by characters who are flawed, complex, and trying to make sense of impossible situations. Whether it's a musical, opera, or screenplay, I'm drawn to narratives that feel both ancient and urgent, stories that make you laugh and break your heart in the same breath. I write for audiences who crave substance wrapped in spectacle, who want to feel something real even when the world onstage is entirely fantastical.
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2-Week Staged Workshop
UPCOMING – NYC – August 2025
Songbyrd Demo Fund Recipient
2024
National Music Theater Conference Semifinalist
2024
Choreography Residency
Silambam Phoenix – 2023-24
Choreography Presentation
La Mama Experimental Theater – August 2023
Concert Presentation
54 Below – July 2023
29-Hour Reading
54 Below – April 2023
Development History
In a rural village in India, an 18-year-old girl was burned alive on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. The townspeople all stick to the same story: the girl went willingly and was touched by the Mother Goddess, Sati. She was chosen to do this. Sati: Goddess Incarnate is loosely inspired by the true story of Roop Kanwar, the last recorded case of the practice of sati—widow burning—in India, and tells a story that is yet to be told: Roop’s story.
A headstrong and defiant girl, Roop is constantly at odds with what is expected of her. But she discovers a connection with Goddess Sati during the Navratri festival and sends her village into a frenzy. What happens when the people who laud you as a goddess turn against you? With a score based in Carnatic, Western classical, and music theatre styles featuring Bharatnatyam as the primary dance language, Sati: Goddess Incarnate investigates a central question: what happens when the stories we tell ourselves begin to affect our reality?
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Full Work Commissioned by The Atlanta Opera
PREMIERING in 2026
Winner of The Atlanta Opera's 96-Hour Opera Festival
June 2024
Development History
In this one act opera, Janani is losing her memory. While she refuses to accept her condition, her children see that she needs care and they employ the use of a healthcare AI named MPO (Memory Processing Operator). As Janani comes to terms with her new reality, she discovers that she can have a new life with the help of her new aide as face her disease and future head on.
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New Harmony Project Residency
Indiana – 2025 Cohort
A/C Theater Company
2020
Development History
From the outside, the Ramachandrans look like a typical Indian-American immigrant family: a nice couple who immigrated to the United States after their arranged marriage, found success, had two daughters, and now live a quiet life. But when their kids come back home for Thanksgiving with their partners, secrets are revealed from all sides and the carefully pieced together normalcy the Ramachandran’s lives were built on comes crashing down.
Adi-Antham is a bilingual play exploring the concept of American realism and the kitchen-sink drama through an Indian lens. The play features both Tamil and English dialogue, the music of some of my favorite Tamil films, movement, and a whole lot of food. After all, food is an Indian mother’s favorite love language.
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Nayika Mixtape
Based on the Indian literary concept of the Ashtanayikas (Eight Classical Heroines), the Nayika Mixtape is a blend of musical theater, pop, rock, disco, and Indian fusion to tell the stories of these eight female characters through a contemporary lens.
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I approach writing with both craft and care—balancing structure, precision, and a deep love for authentic storytelling. Together, we can shape work that is compelling, resonant, and full of heart.